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The common problem users or admins run into when first dealing with a Linux machine is how to find the files they are looking for.

We discuss here the GNU/Linux find command which is one of the most important and much-used commands in Linux systems. find is used to search and locate a list of files and directories based on conditions you specify for files that match the arguments. Find can be used in a variety of conditions like you can find files by permissions, users, groups, file type, date, size and other possible criteria.